漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
濁: voiced, uncleanness
Also: wrong, nigori, impurity
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 蜀(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 蜀 gives the sound
16 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
ダクdaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 汚濁おだくpollution; contamination; corruption
- 濁流だくりゅうmuddy stream
にごるnigoru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 濁るにごるto become muddy; to become cloudy
- 濁りにごりmuddiness; murkiness; cloudiness
にごすnigosu · kun'yomi
- 濁すにごすto make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy
Also read ジョク, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ダク
1 kanji shares this on'yomiAlso read ジョク
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 浊 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhuó
Japan keeps the traditional form 濁; mainland China simplifies it to 浊.
- Simplified
- 浊 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 濁 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhuó most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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